Movie News

Writer-producer Kevin McCann has said he plans to have The Rising, "the first movie ever" about the Easter 1916 Rising, in cinemas next year, and hopes to begin production on the Colin Morgan-starring film in the Autumn, if a lead investor can be secured.

Sherlock's Andrew Scott is back home in Dublin this week for an Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) event at the Shelbourne Hotel on Monday night, during which he will talk about his award-winning work as Moriarty and his role in new Bond film SPECTRE.

Jeff Bridges is the last surviving warrior of a mystical order, who aims to exterminate Julianne Moore's icy witch queen in a cavernous, darkly-forested place of sheer cliffs and scary waterfalls. It's reasonably thrilling, but too long at 120 minutes.

Filmed over two years, Declan O'Mahony's film, River Runner, uncovers disturbing truths about the River Lee, whose eco-system has been seriously damaged since two ESB dams went into operation in the late 1950s. Paddy Kehoe reports.

With A Most Violent Year opening in cinemas this Friday, star Oscar Isaac tells TEN's Harry Guerin about his powerhouse performance opposite friend and former classmate Jessica Chastain in the JC Chandor-directed thriller.

Keith Walsh and Jill Beardsworth, two Irish film-makers, spent four years in the village Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied, Syrian Golan Heights to make Apples of the Golan. Paddy Kehoe talked to the film-makers.